Entrepreneurship in Africa

A Historical Approach
Herausgeber: Ochonu, Moses E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explore the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780253034380
• ISBN-10: 0253034388
• Artikelnr.: 49568429

Autorenporträt

edited by Moses E. Ochonu, with contributions by Ralph Callebert, Chambi Chachage, Gloria Chuku, Gloria Emeagwali, Michael Gennaro, Kwasi Konadu, Isidore Lobnibe, Marta Musso, Mike Odugbo Odey, Lynn Schler

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Toward African Entrepreneurship and Business History / Moses
E. Ochonu
Part One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks
1. Globalization and the Making of East Africa's Asian Entrepreneurship
Networks / Chambi Chachage
2. The Wangara Factor in West African Business History / Moses E. Ochonu
Part Two: Female Entrepreneurs and Gendered Innovation
3. Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power
Relations in Colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku
4. From Artisanal Brew to a Booming Industry: An Economic History of Pito
Brewing among Northern Ghanaian Migrant Women in Southern Ghana / Isidore
Lobnibe
5. Interconnections between Female Entrepreneurship and Technological
Innovation in the Nigerian Context / Gloria Emeagwali
Part Three: Entrepreneurship as Political Initiative
6. Benin Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in North East Yorubaland From the
Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century / Uyilawa Usuanlele
7. Taking Control: Sonatrach and the Algerian Decolonization Process /
Marta Musso
Part Four: Unconventional Entrepreneurs
8. Business After Hours: The Entrepreneurial Ventures of Nigerian Working
Class Seamen / Lynn Schler
9. Ace Boxing Promoter: "Super Human Power," Boxing, and Sports
Entrepreneurship in Colonial Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Michael Gennaro
10. Healing Works: Nana Kofi Donk and the Business of Indigenous
Therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu
11. Entrepreneurs or Wage Laborers? The Elusive Homo Economicus / Ralph
Callebert
Part Five: African Enterprise in the Shadow of Colonization
12. The Socioeconomic Bases of Growth of Microentrepreneurship in the Igede
Area of Central Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Mike
Odey
13. Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and the Development of Retail Business
in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920-1950 / Martin Shanguhyia
Epilogue: African Entrepreneurship, Past and Present / Moses E. Ochonu